Preventing Word formatting when pasting

Can this be done?

[Jimmy Turnip]

I have a content manager that uses javascript designmode to edit the pages, but I only want the users to be able to use the buttons and options that i've created.

They are using Word to write the content, so when they copy and paste the text into the application it is retaining all the Word formatting.

Is there any way of preventing this without telling them to copy into notepad first and then paste from there?

Thanks.

[Sanenet]

Had the same problem, but never found a solution that was easier than copying via Notepad. :(

[Easy_Coder]

Try PureText at stevemiller.net. It will let you paste from Word w/o the formatting. Once you install PureText click Windows Button + v and that will paste unformatted text.

[mattglet]

The only way to do it, is to use notepad or a 3rd party component.

The problem is being caused because you're copying from a rich-text editor, to a rich-text editor. All the formatting options will stay. You need to paste to a plain-text editor to nullify the rich-text formatting.

[coopster]

The open source project htmlarea has an MS Word stripping function.

[sourceforge.net...]

[Jimmy Turnip]

Cheers for that coopster, that's a really excellent bit of kit.

That PureText thing is pretty nifty, but I should be able to do it using HTMLArea. In fact, I may just use the HTMLArea instead it's that good!